CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.09.10 15:17:00 -
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For Rookies who haven't gotten nosey and googled "Dust" "EVE" "Community" much:
If you're getting frustrated by the number of times you're being clocked from attackers you don't even get a chance to spot, because they are squishing you before you even take 20 steps in this game----taking 20 minutes off from the game for some entertaining laughs and mysteries will keep your blodd pressure down.
CCP has had 10 years to fully elaborate this entire imaginary universe called New Eden, where our Dust combat takes place. And they cleverly chronicled the details in the form of an imaginary Intergalactic News Feed, (think of it like reading BBC News online).
They call it "World News" and it's NOT author-fiction, or player-written stories. It's the BACKSTORY that is chronilogically WRITTEN BY THE DEVS themselves,...
...and it explains where a lot of your weaponry and tech comes from, why one race holds a grudge against another, why only SOME of you weapons appear in the militia marketplace, and who the devil IS Kaaliokotia--whaa, and why is their name on my proto gun?
Each report is a quick-read, so you only have to schlopp through what catches your interest---not like reading a heavy novel if you're not into that stuff.
Some of the reports will make you LOVE your racial gear (or start hatine the other merc because of HER racial gear)
Some of the reports uncover mini-Watergates and double-crosses. I read this stuff, and I thoroughly suspect that Empress Jamyl is secretly a CLONE, and not the real Jamyl.
Some of the reports are based on ACTUAL incidents that Eve players caused to happen IN-THE-GAME (CCP cleverly used their News Feed to turn the incidents into a permanent part of New Eden history). It was my hope that they'd be writing about OUR Dust exploits once we got fully into PC battles,.. they STARTED to.... but, that's a different issue to discuss.
 THIS link is to the very beginning of the Feeds, originally written by CCP Svarthol almost exclusively:
http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/world-news/?page=38
 THIS link gets you to the most current reports, written mostly by CCP Eterne, a great writer who was laid off recently (but whose work in this New Feed really deserves a salute--):
http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/world-news/
Hope it entertains you.
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
No story can have life without writers and publishers.
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CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.09.12 21:11:00 -
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 No... it seems as though, in the EVE games, only the most notorious double-crosses (where one player-corp is able to infiltrate and bilk billions of ISK from the treasury of another player-corp), or seriously shocking spaceship battles where the fight went on for 3 days and cost players ENORMOUS ship loss, get reported in the World News.
I WAS surprsed that the Million Clone Event we had in Dust didn't get a mention---I felt SURE that would have been made into New Eden fiction history somehow...
No, unless we get deeply into PC warfare again, I don't think Dust will make any more contributions. We HAVE made a few stories. The introduction of clone mercs and our reason for being "quarantined" in the Molden Heath region of space, ARE fictitiously explained in the World News, in
http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/world-news/breaking-news-jacus-roden-reveals-existence-of-cloned-mercenaries-announces-federation-purge/
http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/world-news/modern-finances-report-cloned-soldiers-provide-high-return-on-investment/
and
http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/world-news/thukker-tribe-invites-cloned-mercenaries-to-police-molden-heath/
But we have to be fully released into PC (and FW) to make REAL news...
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
No story can have life without writers and publishers.
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CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
266
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Posted - 2014.09.15 16:07:00 -
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Kaze, I was just never really sure if the Caldari Prime event was an actual PLAYER occurence, or if CCP just put in all the "Shiigeru" (spelling?) planet-fall stuff as fiction added onto a space-based player event.
It was tremendous, and CCP did a whole video around it to promote Dust... but was a player-corp Caldari spaceship actually destroyed and slameed into the surface?
...I just wasn't sure enough to include it as an example.
But you're right---it's too big a story to miss!
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
No story can have life without writers and publishers.
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